Didrik

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Old Danish Old Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Low German form of Dietrich [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Related Names

See Dietrich

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Didriksen Denmark Norway
Didriksson Sweden

Female

Didriksdatter Denmark Norway
Didriksdotter Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Didrik
Genitive: Didriks
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Didrik
Genitive: Didrikin
Partitive: Didrikiä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Didrik
Genitive: Didriks
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Didrik
Genitive: Didriks

Name Day

Norway Norway

7 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 274 people were named Didrik (percentage of first or only given name: 15 %) [9]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[10]
920 1399 0 0 920 1399
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
38 0 0
n.a.
38
Denmark Denmark[12]
11
n.a.
0
n.a.
11
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
0 11
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
1468
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
1468
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Didrik (m) Sources: [10][12][14][11]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Didrik (m)


References

  1. Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  8. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  10. 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. 12.0 12.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no